Also the case with Tanith, whose mother was mentally ill and may not even have understood what sex was when she was taken advantage of by the family gardener.

Child by Rape: Unfortunately the only method by which the wood-wose race can now reproduce.

Casanova Wannabe: Tom Underhill fancies himself a playboy but gets treated like a joke on account of it and Ginny seems quite immune to his charms.Book Ends: The story begins and ends with a woman being frightened by the sight of a wood-wose lurking outside a window.Wayne-Johnston's staff, but not before Salor succeeds in raping and impregnating Ginny. Bittersweet Ending: The Rowans and their wood-wose allies are defeated by the combined efforts of the police and Mrs.Big Bad Duumvirate: Tanith Rowan and her husband Selwyn: a pair of Satanic witches who are sacrificing women in an attempt to revive a Dying Race.Wayne-Johnston remarks that with a name like that it's no surprise that she became a witch. Unfortunately, a later one is successful. Attempted Rape: A rogue wood-wose tries it on Virginia but is stopped by his fellows.Antagonist Title: Tanith is an evil witch responsible for several deaths and out to subject Virginia to ritual rape.The Rowans seem to genuinely like Virginia (Tanith in particular likes her a lot,) and the only reason they do what they do to her is to prevent the wood-woses and Tanith herself from dying.

Despite the wood-woses' horrific appearance, they are not depicted as malicious under most circumstances and normally just try to stay out of human beings' way. Affably Evil: Tanith and Selwyn Rowan, and the wood-woses themselves.This work contains examples of the following tropes: Not to be confused with a British author with a similar name from the same time period. Memorable for its lurid eroticism and a NSFW cover illustration by renowned fantasy artist Chris Achiellos, ◊ Tanith also deserves mention as an imaginative delve into British witchcraft by an author who was himself a practicing witch. But as days pass with no sign of Richard, and as a sinister woman named Tanith Rowan begins insinuating herself into her life, Virginia finds herself on a collision course with her own dark past in witchcraft and a potentially deadly future among ancient, eldritch creatures of folklore. At first she dismisses the encounter as a result of stress and too much sun. In a cottage in the English woods Virginia Lane is brooding over a recent argument with her novelist husband Richard when she catches a glimpse of a horrific humanoid creature lurking in her garden. Tanith is a 1977 supernatural horror novella by Jack D.

Tanith by Jack D. Shackleford